how much will this cost me?

SIGMUND FREUD QUESTIONS Name:

Must be WORDPROCESSED and written in COMPLETE SENTENCES. Make sure to explain your

responses in GREAT DETAIL, so that your thoughts and ideas can be fully understood.

WORTH 30pts

“Civilizations and Its Discontents”

READING 33.1

1. According to Freud in his Civilizations and Its Discontents, what is man trying to gain or achieve

in life by fending off his sufferings?

2. What, according to Freud are the three main sources of human suffering?

3. What are the many methods of “avoidance of unpleasure” and “fending off suffering” Freud

discusses in the excerpt? (Make sure to list ALL of these methods in your response).

4. What does Freud see as the greatest threat to civilized society?

5. What does Freud mean by a “cheap enjoyment” when discussing technical progress, the cultural

endeavors of humankind and our gained power of man over nature? Also give one of the

examples of a cheap enjoyment from this excerpt.

6. Do you agree with his philosophy stated above?

7. How is Freud expressing the spirit of Modernism within this essay?

8. Do you agree with this statement: Freud argued that civilization was built on an inevitable

conflict between humans’ true desires and the requirements of work and achievement? Why or

why not?

READING 35.11

9. Analyze this quote from “Civilization and Its Discontents”: Homo homini lupus [man is wolf to

man].

10. How and why does Freud disagree with Lenin’s basic premise as stated in “The State and

Revolution”? (look in your textbook chapter about Vladmir Ilyich Lenin and the Russian

Revolution)

Sigmund Freud’s Psychoanalysis (based on your textbook readings)

1. In your own words summarize the function of the id?

2. In your own words summarize the function of the ego?

3. In your own words summarize the function of the superego?

4. Do you agree with this statement: Civilization is the product of the ego’s effort to modify the

primal urges of the id?

5. Why or why not?